THE jury in the Rolf Harris trial appears to be struggling with a unanimous verdict, yesterday raising a further five questions on reaching a decision as their deliberations moved into their sixth day.

The six man and six woman jury in the 84-year-old entertainer’s trial sent their concerns to Judge Nigel Sweeney in the form of questions and comments.

It appeared from their remarks there is conflict in the closed-door deliberations with at least one juror taking a dissenting view and apparently struggling to weigh up evidence presented during the seven week trial.

The questions which the jury sought clarification on were:

“1. Can we discuss legal directions given as there seems some confusion as a juror is making behavioural assumptions which is taken into account as evidence in many counts;

2. We are to judge each count independently — please clarify;

3. Is it allowed to stereotype what the victim should have done prior to an alleged offence taking place in more than one count or using it against them;

4. As opposed to using patterns within counts to help decide an outcome of one count surely it is non advisable to take evidence from one count in the future to judge the count in the here and now NB count 3-9 please clarify;

5. Can the veracity of a witness statement in one count be taken into account when judging the voracity of a witness statement in another count.”

Harris has pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of indecent assault of four women from 1968 to 1986.

Counts 3-9 relate to one alleged victim who claimed she was first sexually assaulted by Harris as a 13-year-old in 1978 during a holiday with the Harris family to Hawaii and Australia. She has alleged in court he performed indecent acts on her several times from that age until the age of 29 during which the prosecution alleged she had become conditioned or groomed to abuse.

Judge Sweeney told the jury last night the first question was more a statement and on the others he redirected them to various passages of his lengthy closing summation he gave over three days which ultimately said it was a matter for them to judge. He said it was permissible to take into account one witness statement in one count to another and urged common sense to judge and identify red herrings in evidence.

Judge Sweeney has previously told the Harris trial at Southwark Crown Court he would initially only accept a unanimous verdict on each of the 12 counts.